Above The Tracks ( North Otago ) Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 26-May-12. Waypoint GC3M6GZ

gone

Along with Thee Mole we looked for sometime with no success along with the other DNF's think this is gone

Missing

Think it's gone as we looked for quite some time before I saw all the previous DNF logs. Owner check needed.

Thanks anyway Bitsprayer

Looked hard and long but didn't find it.

Third time looking DNF wonder if still there?

Pretty solid search.

Quick look in the town before heading for Moeraki. Liked this one fav from us.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

TFTC

Found it with help of another cacher good hide and took a while to locate. Tftc

Funny, but not easy to find! I get help from nice kiwi cahers! Thanks!

NIce quick find. Took a couple of ticks for my fat fingers to extract the cache though.

91 of 270 for a day stretching from Danseys to Thompson's Track.

Took about 30 seconds to find, Met bossman61. TFTC.

found it with thanks to waitaki999

Quick find during our stroll through Oamaru.

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:bad: New Zealand - Aotearoa - Middle-earth 2012 or "There and Back Again" :bad:

We searched here for a few minutes, but we didn't find the cache... [xx(]

We will come back someday!

Sanne & Kiki

I brought six TB's from North America whose goals included coming down under and wouldn't you know, the first chance we get to find a cache, it turns out to be a micro. Oh well, they stood up for a picture together as over the next few days they'll be splitting up. They are going to miss each other after living in the same geocache backpack for several months always waiting to go on their big adventure. TFTC - it's our first in New Zealand.

First cache on NZ. Interesting history of the town at the info centre.

How hard can it be? a quick find for me.

TFTC

4883. On our way home to Christchurch from the Mega Event in Dunedin we decided to spend a couple of nights in Oamaru while geocaching in the area. After the first night this was our full day caching in the Weston area and in Oamaru itself. Got up early and did four caches before breakfast. Then after breakfast off we went. This was the thirty first cache find of the day. Had to wait while a wedding party had their photo taken right at GZ - didn't like to interrupt! Took a bit of searching but we got there in the end. Very nice! Thanks, Rodney and Iris.

Another great day geocaching around Oamaru. Weather pretty good and lots of good finds.

Soon located this cache.

SL TFTC

It took a while to spot it but got there with a spotter and a reacher

Found on the way home from the Mega.

Bumped into Darby and Joan here after signing the log. Hope no-one drops the cache. Great views from up here today. Did with Mycro Man on our NZ MEGA 2012 South Island Trip

Did with CrystalFairy

This one was made a lot easier by catching a cacher signing the log. Nice view from up here. Then we joined forces to help him on a 2nd attempt at the end of the wharf. Nice spot, wish we had more time to linger here. SL. TFTC.

Pulled up here to admire the view and have a bite. Get out of the car to hear the front tyre slowly deflating on the camper. Dang.

Had our bite to eat, then tried to change the tyre. The jack they had given us was stuffed and kept slipping, so rang the hire company. Their advice was to ring a local garage who would send someone out and they would reimburse us. Another call to the iSite and they recommended North Otago Motors who promised someone would be out. With an unknown time to wait decided to target this 60 meters away. A quick find, a not so quick extraction and it was mine. Back to the car just as the mechanic turned up, his price for assistance with a real jack was a couple of beers for 10 minutes of his time. The beer economy is alive and well.

Headed south after for the night at a DOC campground as would like to have a look around this area when it is open tomorrow. Thanks Bitsprayer.

Day 9 of our campervan tour of New Zealand with Angel, Teachermom and Hynr. Today was a relaxing day. We found just a few caches around Oamaru and walked around the town a bit.

Thanks Bitsprayer for hiding this cache.

Found as part of Team Spinner during our Great New Zealand Mega and other Adventures. TFTC

Traveling as Team Spinner in our campervan to attend the Mega Event in Dunedin. At this point we are heading back north. Lil Devil spotted it.

Great nano. Took a while to spot for us.

Nice hide, not too many muggles about tftc

Had us bambozelled. We looked high and low but maybe we were just too hungry. Had had a busy day and marvelled at Old Oamaru. Had been thru town before and never realised the hidden gems so close by. Stopped for dinner at a nearby restaurant we had walked by on the way here (after trying out the giant treadmill in the amazing steam punk playground). The young man at the table beside us got down on bended knee to propose. He was accepted and there was not a dry eye in the place...

I've been here before andf not found it but .... today there it was .... after another big search.

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

We found this one quickly but it took a little while to retrieve. Then we spent more time playing the park nearby. The hampster wheel was fantastic.
Thanks

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

This one could have taken ages but thankfully The Rats placed his hand on it straight away. It was s little hard to extract from its hidey hole but in the end it came free.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache.

Our 6289th overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. A quick find for us. The highlight was playing on the nearby park. I love the hamster wheel.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

Found while on tour with The Empire on the way to the NZ Mega event in Dunedon from Melbourne .
thankyou for this part of our guided tour and your cache .
Steve

Found by The Empire with tackle_head
Day three of the trek south to the NZ Mega.
After staying in Oamaru for night two, it was time to head to Dunedin. We'd had a cooked breakfast in an Oamaru bakery and grabbed a few caches in town before heading south. This was one of the caches we found. My thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache.
- M
Melbourne, Australia

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

So much interesting stuff here to look at and do- once we finished caching we went to the park- big kids!! TFTC!

We found this neat cache while on our two weeks Blitz of the South Island for the Mega Event.
Many thanks for the hide.
TNLNSL.

Joggers are definitely fans of this area, running up and down and past and back and around and every which way like ants after you disturb a cache they're nesting in! Fortunately, they're so busy trying to breathe that they don't really notice a pair of geocachers subtly searching for a teensy container . TFTC, Bitsprayer. =^.^=

The GPS led us straight to it. Just had to time the retrieval and replacement as there were heaps of teens jogging back and forth. TFTC

A nice spot, visited on a cool clear night.

Nice quick find at night Cheers Gav

A micro find.

Find #1344. On a lovely South Island holiday from Wellington, although the weather wasn’t quite so nice in this part of the country. A solo find in an effort to see some of the town with squally southerly showers blowing in off the sea. Had a spot of bother with this as the cache had squirreled itself into a tiny gap that was inaccessible to fingers, so had to use a pen to jiggle it around and eventually prise it out. Long tweezers would have been perfect. Again, a great spot of history here. SL TFTC

Found this time!! 3rd time lucky

found it found it found it found it found it found it found it found it found it found it found it found it !!!!

lots of people walking around the park near by, TFTC

TFTC

Had trouble getting it out but tftc!

WOW! This is such a small cache! I found it in the end! Thanx Katie

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Trust your instincts on this one. You may need the pen not just to sign the cache.

Very difficult! TFTC.

Good to get this sneaky little one done. Took a few goes. Glad to have some help from Marcello1's small hands! TFTC.

Nice to cross this one off the list. Nice hide.

DNF, our fourth for the day. Time to give it up.

Found it some time ago but went back today on a dot day to sign off the log. Thought the little blitter had gone missing but no, just very well hidden. TFTC

No luck...

Rather tricky to find and replace

pleased to get this one off the list

found just on dark with a torch

blimey!! found it [^]

I'm glad i had the right tools for the job. Nice jazz playing in the background also

On a caching trip with ingidayna to Oamaru and surrounds to get 1000 finds. A tricky wee hide. TFTC

last person had put it in to far so had to return to the van to get required tool, had the police drive past a couple of times at 9 pm all good didn't put back where I found it and removed some rust so it sticks a bit bettter. one of many to get 1000 caches TFTC found with wethreefourdices.

Sneeky little hide but worth the effort. TFTC

Found it with WGHS South. TFTC

found with wghs south

This was more challenging to find but we found it. found as part of group wghssouth. A nice view from the top.

Originally came here with the SKC group, and with no luck after some hunting in the bitterly cold wind we moved on. Later in the day I announced to Geomum that I had 139 caches, and after she claimed that to be an "annoying number," we set out to find this one! Two minutes later it was found and signed, and I have no clue how I missed it earlier! 140th cache, thank you!

Yay! found tihs one i heard it was hard

Found by WGHS South.
I found this one before anyone else in my group
TFTC

Found with WGHS South Group. It took quite a bit of searching to find it!

Miss 10 spotted this one. Luckily we had the necessary tools with us, however I was worried about what could go wrong. All good, signed the log and returned the cache to where it belonged. Phew. TFTC

Definately not a quick grab and dash! Some suitable impliments were required to achieve success ... but we came well prepared. Gotcha !!

Good to see this refurbishment. Whenever we came to Oamaru we wondered what the fate of the bridge may be - good to see it open. Took a while to retrieve the cache, good hide. TFTC

A joint FTF with a very gracious ErnieNZ! Great views from up here, and it was lovely to be able to share fond memories of the old bridge...thanks heap Ernie...

I had been on this bridge when I was a boy with the added bonus of a steam train passing under me. (I remeber my Mother was not impressed!)
I thought when I saw this published it would be a good excuse to see the recently finished refurbishment.
Drove towards GZ and saw cars everywhere! trust me to pick a time and day when the Farmers Market was in full swing and as the day was so good a lot of people were in the Harbour Area.
Decided I would leave this and try when it was a bit quieter as I was about to leave I spotted some reinforcements arriving so armed with some good company, making me think this was now achieveable, the necessary walk was made - not too many up here and a joint FTF with Cachesaurus Rex - thanks for their help.
Thanks
erninz

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